When I eat an apple / Eating Choreography

The video performance centres on gestures and poses associated with eating. It reflects on cultural habits connected to food and explores the cultural and symbolic meanings tied to specific types of food. In this performance, I use the apple — a common fruit in Central Europe, where I live — as a significant symbol in both ancient and Christian European traditions. My gestures are accompanied by quotations from Annemarie Mol's essay, I Eat an Apple. As Deborah Lupton notes, Mol points out that once food is swallowed, a person loses control over what happens to it in the body during digestion.
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I was also inspired by Caroleen Korsmeyer's book, Gender in Aesthetics, which argues that the sense of taste, in its literal sense, has historically been regarded as inferior to the sense of sight and is often associated with femininity. This video performance comments on cultural clichés and stereotypes surrounding women, food, and the act of consumption.